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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






2. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






3. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






4. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






5. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






6. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






7. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






8. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






9. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






10. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






11. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






12. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






13. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






14. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






15. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






16. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






17. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






18. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






19. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






20. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






21. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






22. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






23. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






24. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






25. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






26. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






27. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






28. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






29. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






30. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






31. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






32. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






33. A product - result or service generated by a process






34. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






35. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






36. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






37. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






38. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






39. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






40. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






41. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






42. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






43. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






44. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






45. ACWP






46. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






47. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






48. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






49. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






50. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project